Serenity Now

At the suggestion of a lot of the people here, I've started watching Joss Whedon's Firefly. Yeah, I'm truly late. But I'm enjoying myself and I'm really sad the show got cancelled. It's good, clean fun. Looking back on it, I think I didn't enjoy BSG because I felt like it was never as deep as it thought it was. Every second I felt like I could hear the show's creators saying things like "this is sci-fi naturalism," or "this show is really dark," or "this ain't no punk-ass Star Trek."

I don't know. I like Firefly because they don't seem to be trying to say anything, or do anything. It actually reminds me of Cougartown in that sense. It's just a TV show trying to be a decent TV show. It doesn't have any lofty aspirations.

The scif-fi/Western mash-up actually put me in the mind of one of my favorite childhood cartoons, Galaxy Rangers. Theme songs kicked ass back then. I loved that they had a smart black dude on the show.

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